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* [[Awesome Music]]: The score by Jerry Goldsmith. He returned after 10 years and gave it his full orchestra treatment. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qGLqxzR0L0 Star Trek V Theme]
* [[Canon Sue]]: What Shatner turns Kirk into. He freeclimbs El Capitan, personally leads a squadron of [[Space Marine|space marines]] [[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything|who don't do anything]], gets Uhura to strip naked to provide a distraction, charges into a hostage rescue operation on horseback, is the only character who flat-out refuses Sybok's [[Epiphany Therapy]], and is the first person to think of asking God what he needs with a starship.
** Still, it could have been a lot worse - it actually ends up being {{spoiler|Spock and the drunken Klingon general}} that save the day.
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** Except that was the point of the scene. That Kirk doesn't want the pain drawn out, and he doesn't want to deal with it. He wants to hold onto it, keep it. It's not the emotional response that's considered healthy in modern Western society, but it's still an entirely human and understandable one.
*** That decision came back to bite him on the ass in [[Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country|the next film]]. If he'd dealt with the loss of his son in this film, he'd have had seven years between letting go of that pain and meeting Chancellor Gorkon (and the entire plot of ''The Undiscovered Country'' would have been different, yeah, I know).
* [[Took the Bad Film Seriously]]: Lawrence Luckinbill as Sybok.
* [[Vindicated by History]]: To a ''very'' slight degree. For about a decade or so after its release it tended to be up there with things like ''[[Howard the Duck]]'' and ''[[Batman and Robin (film)|Batman and Robin]]'' on "Worst Films of All-Time" lists, and wasn't much better regarded among ''Star Trek'' fans. Nowadays it tends to be regarded as just a mediocre sci-fi flick, with the likes of ''[[Battlefield Earth]]'' attracting more [[Bile Fascination]] from casual viewers, and ''Trek'' fans turning their ire toward ''[[Star Trek: Nemesis]]'' (and to a lesser extent ''[[Star Trek: Insurrection|Star Trek Insurrection]]'').
** And with ''Into Darkness'' easily trumping both of those in fan distaste, it's probably not looking too bad these days.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: [[Word of God|According to Shatner]] and several others in on the original creation process of the movie, the plot would have followed the current form of the film much the same... until they met [[God]]. Instead of being a random alien, this would turn out to be ''[[Satan]]'' and McCoy would sacrifice himself to spare Spock and Kirk -- who would simply dive into Hell after their friend and drag him out of Hell with Satan nipping at their heels.
** This was nixed by various other people working on the film as just being too polarizing and not fitting for Star Trek. Or something equally bizarre -- which resulted in a string of compromises that resulted in a script far worse for the wear. Combined with the [[Special Effects Failure]] [[It Got Worse|that would later fly up]]...
** It should be noted that in one episode of [[Star Trek: The Animated Series|TAS]], they ''did'' go to the center of the galaxy and find Satan -- though that story actually had the opposite denouement to Shatner's idea, and revealed that "Satan" was actually the sole nice guy in a world full of jerks.
** The "rock monsters" mentioned below under [[Special Effects Failure]] certainly also apply, at least in that they looked far better than the rest of the feature's effects.
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